*~ ~ ~~~7: -.1-i--**-- -Z UAILROAD SIIEiDULE.-Tho trainu, -m C. C. & A. R. R. now leave Winnsboro as follows - Going north -12.80 a. m. Going south, 1.35, a m Accommodation day trains: Going north, 11.33, a. m. Going south, 12.12. These trains meet at Winns boro. PosT OFFICE HoUi.-Tho post office will be open daily (Sundays excepted) from 8 A. M,, to 12 M. and from 2 to 5 1. M. Northern and Southern mail close at 8 P. M. precisely. W- Mail delivered on Sundays from 8 to 9 A. M. only. Sie Advertisers will please re member that advertiscinents, in order to secure insortion, must be handed in by nine o'clock on Tues day morning. Contract advertise inents must be handed in by the same hour on Monday morning. Religious Services. Associnto Lieforneid Church-Rov J. M L'Old, Il' A. it.. and R 1-. mt. Y. M. C. A ,---Meting at Mothodist Chucl at 5 r. At. MethOdistChuroh --Rev. 0. W. Wall er 11, A. Nt., 8 p. 3t. RundIIay School I10 A. At Prayer o -ting, Thur-day, 8 P. it. F0pascopl chureli-Rev. J. Ohear, er viceH every Munday except the 2nd Sunday of the month .at II o'clock A. NT Pro-ibyterian Church-- Rev. C. 'p. Chi chestr, II A. At.. and 71 P. '1. abbath Sch'ool 31 P. bt. Prayer Meeting, Wednes day,7 1-2 P. At. Subscribe for TiHE NEv AND HEn ALD, ani be sure to have the ready money10V. The jail is getting full again. Cotton thieves and store-breakers are coming forward in considerable * a'undance. .b We trust V irfiel 'will be well representod a.t the State Fair on the 5th prox., both in visitors and in I articles for exhibition. A&- Attention is directe(I to certain changes made in the appoint ment of school trustees, asi given in ii Iotler column. &-W Delinquent subscribero must expect their names to be at once dropped from our list. Our terms, it must be distinctly understood, are strietly Cash. in a7drance. You need not neglect your busi ess when troubled with a cough or cold, if you only use a reliable remedy at once. Dr. Bull's Cough Syrup is tile best remedy we know of. Price only 25 cents. * A series of neetings under the auspices of the Young Men's Ohris tian Association, condlucted by R1ev. C. E. Chichester, at Chmariotte, North Carolina, have just boon con 4cluidod. These meetings excited great interest. We are requested to state that there will be a grand( Hampton ball in Winntsboro onl next W~ednecsday (even~ing. Mtuisic will be0 furniished by thme Columbia Opera House band. Price of tickets, $2.00 each inlchuling Hsupper. Mr'. J. Talrner. Stew~art, whot has hadi frecluent talks with the colored J)O:)ple, says t-hat if the ele'ction were to take laceW next. Tu~esday,1 this coun~ ty wvould go over wime sing-i ly Demuocratic. Hind sight is miuchi bettor thanJ fore( night, to the RaIIdicauls. ~Johnl Dunb~ar, a negro on Mr. JaIS. M uckin's section, near Ridge way, when told of the corrup~t and - gnloranlt ticket put out byv tile Radli eal1 1 nominating conivenltion, said, "I dlon't care if dloy would p~ut a dog on (dat ticket, I would vote fe: him." His moral ideas will nowv undergo a radical cihlange. teral Subscribe for Tmi& News Ann) H~iu AwD, and be sure to havethred imon ey. L'sunon E ( The Morn ingq Light). '--T'is is the name of a French Pro testan t weekly ne wspapeor founidedl in 1866, and publllished~ in Montreal, Canada, at $1.50 (United States, $2.) per~ aunnl 'u. It contains articles on the important questions of the day ; a special correspondence from France on Europeanl political and religious matters, as wvell as general family reading andl news, etci. The action of Mr. John T. W~il son, in placing his commission in the hantids of those who conlferred( it -a pr1actical abandlonmient of the oflice of county commissioners to w hich he was recently elected-.does him credit, and must result in good. The reasons impelling him to the ltep) lie has1 taken, are well expressed ihis card, and they must impress thiem)selves favorably upjon) the minfld of every fair-thinking person. A Bio HIau,.-Mr. 1R. E. Quinn, acting as constable for Trial Justice Colen~an, at Feastervillo, brought to town on last Monday night, and delivered to the jailor, the following Dianed prisoners : Wmi. Stome. Jr. Jeff Stone, Sam Stone, Bart Sims, Emanuel Edrington, Sam Mabrey, Henry Davis, Bolton Tobias, and Ivoy Suber. These parties stand committed for trial at the next term of the court ofeessionson the charge of houso-breaking and larceny, they having boen apprehended as the per sons who broke into the store of Mf r. W. Mc, Blair on the the 18th inst., and stole therefrom a large quantity of merchandise. Subsoribe for TnE NEWS AND HER1 ALD, and be suro to have the ready money. The following touching lines have been sent to us. composed in view 3f the death of a certain Congress ional candidate, who was "sat upon" by six thousand independeat voters t the recent election: AN EPITAPH. By J---DOE M - cK -Y. Beneath these rude stones A. S. Wil- -'s bones In quietude aro laid; I fairly mot Dame Nature's debt The first he ever paid. To Heaven we know He did not go Too moun to pay the toll I And know full well He's not in H--l For W-ll-c- had no soul TonCH-LInT PinocEssIoN .oN FLAT BRANCHL-Tho excitement over the Democratic triumph has not been -onfined to the towns and cities. Pho rural districts have caught the .efrain, and only the lack of physi ,al strength ended the magnificent lisplay of 'Capt. Heins' Club, and the citizens generally of this neigh )orhood. Over one hundred mount d men, together with 200 man on oot aipmed with light-wood torches en feet high, marched for miles hrough the field, and forests and whenever a residence was reached, he crowd would halt and vocifer )usly cheer the proprietor until he amerged and addressed them. Subscribe for Tu Nzws AND I-TER LD. and be sure to have the ready noney. The latest accounts from Colnu )ia tgive but little information in Lddition to that contained in the etter of our correspondent. The Janvassers made their report, at the tame time excepting to the action of he court. They have completed he count for members of the Legis ature, and it shows the election of LII the Democratic claim. The real luestion before the court scomoed to >e whether it has power to go be ind the returns and correct errors trising from irregularities. This luention was decided1 on yesterdlay n favor of the Democrats, and a rigid exammination of the precinct nanagors' returns wvill now be hmad. X fair count will elect thme entire Democrat ic ticket. The Democrats in Da)lumb)lia are still buoyat~ and cone Hent. Subscribe for THmE Nnws AND HER u.D, and be sure to have the ready money. THEt STATE FAIR.-Thme annual Pair of the State Agricultural and MIechniical Society wvill open on riuesday, December 5, instead of November 28 as was previously Innouinced. Ever'y ef'ort has been nade b~y thme manngers to mahe the Fair of 1876 an1 entire suiccess, and woe doubt not it will provo so. yhere is every indication that thlousandls of strangoes v I I he in Columbia, representing every por tion of the State. In addition to the attractions alwvays incident to the Fair, the 1)eople will have an op portunity to witness the inaugura tion of Governor Hampton, which will take place while the exhibition is in progress. A better opp1ortuni has never been presented to ex hibitors to make a most ad1vantage mus display. Articles for exhibition should be forwvarded to rThos. W, Holloway, Secretary anid Treasurer, in time to reach Ci lumi I i by Satur day, December 2. In casos where arti. ales are shipped so as to roach Co. lumbia during Fair week, notice of such shipment for entry should be sent to Mr. Holloway (luring the week ending December 2. Subscribe for THEi Naws AND HFan ALP, and be sure to have the ready money, Tono u IonT PnmocEssxON AT RIDoE wAY.-Up)on the receipt of the glorious newvs of Hampton's election the citizens of this little burg "flew all to pieces," and hurrahs filled the air for hours, At night barrels of tar and resin wern burned, and turpentine-balls illuminated thme scene of wild enthusiasm for a mile around, while sky-rockets and ro, man candles told the strto en distant citizens. About 9 o'clock, p. in., the Doko and Long Town Clubs came charging in with a strange but not uncertain yell, and joined in the gonoral glee, The colored Democrats were in high spirits, and had a place in the front of the picture. When the voices had became hoarse from "hurrah ing" and the general din had subsid ed, from shcor exhaustion, speakers were called for, and the jnbilant and smoke-begrimod crowd were ad drssed by Col. H. C. Davis, Col. J. L. Black, Capt. R. S. Dei:portes, Cornelius Means, colorod, Julias Boulware, colored, and Jack Ed, munds, colored. After the addresses thoClubs filed offand the pedestrians quietly returned to their homes. Ridgeway fols justly proud of the share she took in the work of elect ing -Wade Hampton. Subscribe for Tim NEWs AND Hpai ALD, and be sure to have the ready money Tihe Circiit Ceurt. The following is a synopsis of the business transneted by the circuit court at its recent session, in ad dition to the cases already report ed: State vs. Robert Ellison, colored, indicted for assault and battery with a deadly weapon-A. S. Douglass for defendant. Verdict-Guilty of assault and battery. State vs. Archibald Jones, colored, indicted for malicious trospass Goillard & Reynolds for defendant. Verdict-Not Guilty. State vs. Baldwin Johnson, in dicted for pcrjury-H. A. Gaillard for defendant. Verdict-Guilty. State vs. F. H. DuBose, white, indicted for assault with intent to kill-James H. Rion for defendant. Nolle prosequi entered on payment of costs. State vs. Pierre Bacot, John D. McCarlev, Chas. Stewart, Thos. H. Ketchin, Thos. J. H. Murphy, Jno. Gadsden and J. T. Mothershied two eases-nolle prosegui as to Chas. Stewart, on payment of costs. The following sentences were )ronouncod: State vs. Jas. Pearson, colored, grand lareenny-one year at hard labor in the penitentiary. State vs. Richard Milligan, color ed. assault and b.ttery-to pay a fine of twenty dollars and costs, or be implrisoned three months in jail. State vs. Spencer Hughes and Perry Holly, colored, peotit larcony -to be imprisoned one (lay each in jail. S tate vs. Isaac Crawford, colored, mnalicious mischief-to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs, or be imn prisoned three months in jail. Statec vs. L. A. Wa~lker, white, malicious mischief-to pay tihe aum of one hundred dollars, in lieu of fine, into the hands of the clerk of the court, to be paid1 over by him to the owner of the mule destroyed, and to pay all thme costs; or to be imprisoned six months in jail. Stato vs. David Jonos, George Jal((On anid James Jackson, colored, grand larcen y.-David Jones, two years at hard labor in the poniten tiary ; George Jackson, to pay a fine of twvo hundred and fifty dollars and costs, or to be imnprisonied one year at har d labor~ ini the p~enitentia. ry ; James Jackson, to pay a fine of one hundred dolhilrs and costs, or to be imprisoned five months in the peniitenltiary'. State vs. Richard Porter, colored, grand larceny--to pay~ a fine of one dollar and costs, or to be implrisoned thirty days in jail. State vs. Henry Johnston and Calvin Stewart, colored, grand Ilar ccny-three mon this at hdmrd labor inl tihe pen)litentiar~y. State vs. Nathan Singleton, alias Nathan Hingleton, colored, grand larceny-six months at hard labor in the penitentiary. State vs. Baldwin Johnson, color. ed1, perjury-six months in the penitentiary. State vs. Robert Ellison, colored, assault and battery-to pay a fine of tw~enty-five dollars and costs, or be imprisoned three months in jail. State vs. Baldwin Johnson, color ed, grand larceny-one year at hard labor in the penitentiary, to comn mence at thle expiration of the term of the imprisonment of the same convict for perjury. State vs. SquireoWilliams, colored, forgery-,.-one year at hard Jlabor in the peOnitentiary, After some routine civil and criminal business, th~e couri adjourned from day to day, subjeci to the call of the presiding judge. Subscribe for THE NEWS ANI H~rAn, and 'be sure to have the ready money. In L4abo Again. There are some peopl in this world seemingly doomed to oon, tinued trouble. Once they get out of one scrape, they are into another, and once they recover from the effecti of one misfortune, aother and a greater ovoi takes them, Of this piitble class of human beings would seem to be Spencer Hughes, an individual not without some re. nown in these parts. LaAt siumer lie got involved in a little conpl o tun about a hog belonging to Mr. John Wylio. Somo pople were ungoner. ous enough to intimate that Sponcer had actually stolen this valuable animal, and a relentloss trial justice coumlitted him to jail to await his trial on the charge of grand larceny. The weary months rolled by, and the lonely (1) eaptive looked wistfully through barred and bolted windows down upon the busy throng that Came and wont, altogether hoodless alike of his wrongs and of his in noconco. But November came, and with it the court before which the accused froodman was to appear for trial. Ho was well prepared. No less than three distinguished men learned in the law had been retained in his defence, and this fact, in con nection with the high charactor of the accused, was considered sure to secure a full vindication of that charaoter. Yet there was some thing wrong. The defendant, with a degree of candor that does him honor, stopped boldly forward and pleaded guilty of petit larceny. Fortunately for his charactr, the stolen hog was not worth twenty dollars. Sentence day came and Spencer was doomed to confinement for one day in the county jail-a place from which his sensitive nature caused him to shrink with a strange feeling closely akin to horror. But h' endured, in the hope of an early release. What his thoughts were in the drear hours of his imprisonment, we leave the sympathetic reader to imagine. He went to his home, but not to that peace which innocence should bring. It was not very long cre he was in the hands of a law-officer again. In a fit of temper-he is a very high strung man-ho used threatening language to his wife, whereat the said wife was greatly alarmed, and she hied forthwith to the office of Trial Justice Rober'tson and sued out a warrant for tihe arrest of her irate spouse, praying that lie should bo required to give surety for tile peace, else he might do her great bodily harm. But where was a stranger to find szreties ill a selfish communnity like this? There wie none. And the umfoitunate man wa. commlifitted again to the con siderte keeping of the sheriff, till apeo hond should be excnted according to law. The c'hIauces :